Articles by Simon Campion-Brown

Hmnn …. as I begin this post I’m conscious that many Rusters may be fed up to the back teeth with Brexit’s latest manifestation – the General Election – but after yesterday’s developments the bee in my proverbial bonnet has been buzzing in my brain like a jackhammer road drill which [...]

Tuned to Up All Night on Radio Five Live overnight, about 3.30am I think it was, I caught what I’d describe (possibly erroneously) as the regular “Brexit Podcast” produced by the BBC’s political correspondents sitting around and just discussing the latest developments in Parliament. During [...]

Well, yesterday’s House of Commons “Super Saturday” – the first since the Falklands War crisis of 1982 – was a bit of a damp squib, wasn’t it? With the current Brexit 31st October departure date looming ever closer everybody involved, including the media, had assumed in advance that [...]

Having watched several current affairs television programmes yesterday and read the newspaper websites overnight, and whilst I hold no brief for key political players involved – or indeed for any related policy involved, well beyond the fact that I am a firm supporter of the second Scottish [...]

For most of yesterday for reasons beyond my control I was sat in front of the television and on at least two occasions was obliged to watch coverage of the Scottish National Party’s annual conference in Aberdeen – the second of them being for the entirety of leader Nicola Sturgeon’s keynote [...]

Without wishing to pile logs on the fire of the national misery surrounding the Brexit crisis, the state that Parliament has got itself into or indeed the culture surrounding political discourse generally as we embark upon one of the most crucial and far-reaching months in the history of this [...]

Now let’s get this straight. The whole sad, sorry, pathetic, Establishment-revealing Brexit saga is somebody else’s fault, okay? Way back in the Dark Ages the blame lies with Harold Macmillan – you know the one, the patriarchal cove who instigated “the night of the long knives’ against [...]